Winfield Scott Quotes
I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.
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Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.
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I believe in God, but I don't know what it is - if it's a he, she, a he-she, or anything. Who knows what it is. All I know is that I feel like there's something else there.
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My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.
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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.
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The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.
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A prime time to catch yourself putting on your personality is in the moments between sleeping and waking.
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If the artist did not know his goal, even the most miraculous of tools could not find it for him.
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I didn't start singing until I was 16. I was afraid to sing in front of people.
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Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'
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I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so wonderful to me, and it came in the form of that. It's just so funny how things come into your life, and if you take a chance on them, it might give you a brand new life.
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MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress.
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I want to do right, apart from my gender - I want to do right as a campaign manager.
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I love comedy. Comedy is one of my favourite things to do.
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I was privileged to know the late, great Miss Etta James, and I did get a chance to spend some time with her and hang out with her.
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Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.
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If, as is the custom, I speak mainly about my own researches, I must say that I was fortunate in finding that not everything had yet been gleaned in the field of general thermodynamic radiation theory.
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The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.
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Apprehension is natural, but it must not be concluded that it is a threat. Certainly not.
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I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.
